First 2014 Pittsburgh baby

It's a boy!

He beat out his competitors by about an hour. Mekhi Jeremiah Day is less than 24 hours old, and he is already winning. At 1:03 a.m. Jan. 1, the little boy won the title of the first baby born in Pittsburgh in 2014.

His mother was surprised by the news. “They’re like, ‘You’re the first person to have the first baby on New Year’s Day,’” said Tachelle Day, of Penn Hills. “I was like, ‘Are you serious?’”

Little Mekhi weighed in at 6 pounds 4 ounces. He measured 20 inches long. His mother said he started making facial expressions as soon as he was born. She believes he clearly loves the spotlight.

Day said, “He’s always going to have a special place in my heart because, you know, he’s my son. So I guess at the hospital you can call him little superstar.”Just one hour before he was born, Mekhi’s extended family was watching the ball drop on television in his mother’s hospital room at Magee Women’s Hospital of UPMC.

“It was me, my sister, my dad, my grandma and my mom,” said Day. “We all watched the ball drop. When the ball dropped, we all gave each other hugs and kisses and said happy New Year’s to each other.”

Day said New Year’s will always be special because of a little bundle with a big personality.